The Old year passed and this happened again. When I sipped my freshly brewed espresso on our back porch this New Year’s Day morning, I enjoyed the light of the rising sun shining on our loblolly pine trees, and I felt how blessed we are, then when I thought about the past year, I had to conclude that was a very good year.
My wife Lexi and I are 69 years old, we are in good shape, both of us feel strong and healthy, and enjoying all of the outdoor activities. Our two, great grown-up kids Daniel and Gergo are healthy too, so I cannot have a better wish about it, especially in this complicated COVID-19 variants-filled world.
As newly established Bastropians, we live happily in our new house in the middle of the loblolly pine forest in the Tahitian Village of Bastrop since 2020. We explored more at our new surroundings and built a strong connection to Nature at the nearby Bastrop, Buescher and Mc Kinney Falls State Parks, Colorado River Refuge, Lake Bastrop, and Mc Kinney Roughs Nature Park, and found new hidden areas of the curvy Colorado River.
As a retired scientist, I continued to work on scientific papers with a few of my talented former colleagues, and they included me as contributing author in their peer-reviewed, high-impact factor publications. We try to learn Spanish, another new language, but we show only a little progress. Hopefully, our learning will improve in this New Year.
As a Photographic artist, my wife and I, continued to work on several photography portfolio projects, and I tried my best to make my Naturalperl Fine Art Photography small business profitable, but unfortunately, probably because of the pandemic, we sold only a few images in 2021. However, fourteen of our images were on exhibition at the Lost Pines Art Center’s Art Wall in the Bastrop Public Library for three months and we participated in several group exhibitions together with the Members of the Lost Pines Art Center, North Austin Pfotographic Society Austin, Houston Photographic Society, PixelSilver Group (TX), SE Center for Photography (SC) and PhotoPlace Gallery (VT). My wife and I submitted our photographic art to 51 photography contests last year, won several awards, and our works were selected and published in LensWork’s “Our Magnificent Planet 2021” book. I published my portfolio Calendar 2022 “Majestic Live Oaks of Colorado County”.
Because of pandemic-related in-person meeting restrictions, I became familiar with the new online teaching methods and enjoyed my Zoom meetings and online teaching opportunities. As a long-time Photography Instructor, I thought 16 workshops for the Houston Center for Photography, led 4 discussion/critique meetings at the Houston Photography Study Group, and made 3 online presentations at the Houston Audubon Nature Photography Association (Houston), at the North Austin Pfotographic Society (Austin) and for the Bastrop County Audubon Society (Bastrop). After my 29 years of monthly “Photo-Walks” at Brazos Bend State Park, because of the COVID-19 restrictions, I had to discontinue that program in 2021. As an appreciation of my work, I received my 30 Years of Service Award from Brazos Bend State Park Volunteer Organization in November 2021.
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During the Christmas holiday and end of the year, the weather was so warm here in Central Texas, and the birds around us felt the Spring just arrived. On the last day of the Old Year, I organized my large format camera gear, cleaned my photo backpacks, sent our greetings to friends, and at midnight, we remembered the year 2021 and wished a happy 2022 to each other and to all of the missed ones. New Year Day we cooked our traditional Hungarian Lentil Soup and Cottage Cheese Noodles with Bacon pieces, then before dinner, we made a nice hike on Dale’s trail of the Colorado River Refuge and tried to fly fishing. We are happy and enjoying our isolated cabin life in the woods close to Nature.
In conclusion, 2021 was busy, filled with challenges year, but we were thankful for every moment and blessings that we received. We all had sad and happy days in the past year, but we are always full of hopes, energy, and new plans for the New Year.
My wife Lexi, and I are wishing all of my Friends and their Families happiness, peace, and good health throughout 2022!
See the Light! Laszlo
